On Friday, 14 December 2018 12:43:29 CET Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 11:35:37PM +0100, Stefan Fritsch wrote: > >... > > > > I don't see why it should take so > > long for the random number generator to initialize. > > > >... > > On embedded systems without hwrng "10 minutes" or "2 hours" are > real-life observations for the time it takes. > > Note that this became more problematic due to the CVE-2018-1108[1] > fix (reverted in stretch, but in buster/unstable).
Is systemd-random-seed.service broken there? The rng should be initialized after the seed is loaded from disk. Adrian, please send the output of journalctl -b UNIT=apache2.service + UNIT=systemd-random-seed.service + _TRANSPORT=kernel|grep -i -e apache -e random if apache2 fails to start.